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Robert Blust, a Common card
Robert Andrew Blust was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including historical linguistics, lexicography and ethnology.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 26
- Power
- 85
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,100
Power 85 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Robert Blust quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Robert Blust card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was Professor of ______ at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Answer
Linguistics. He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. From the Robert Blust article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Robert Blust. Robert Blust 59 · Robert Swinhoe 56 · Ivane Javakhishvili 51 · Otto Diels 46 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
- Blust specialized in the Austronesian languages and made major contributions to the field of Austronesian linguistics.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Robert Blust article was read about 4,100 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 26: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Robert Blust
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Robert Blust in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Shūsaku NishikawaCommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 25
- Willem Marinus DudokCommon · Arts · ATK 50 DEF 35
- YieldCommon · Science · ATK 51 DEF 34
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Robert Blust (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bradley Rentz, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
